Candace Cameron-Bure, JoJo Siwa.Photo: Frazer Harrison/Getty; Todd Owyoung/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty
JoJo Siwahas come to terms with the admiration she’s lost forCameron Candace Bure.
Bure made the remarks while promoting her role as chief creative officer for the conservative-leaningGreat American Familychannel, tellingThe Wall Street Journalthat the network planned to keep “traditional marriage” — i.e. between a man and a woman — “at the core” of its programming.
Siwa — who ispansexual— objected to the nature of Bure’s choice of words.
“It was that she [wanted] to do a movie about that to put down [the] LGBTQIA [community] and that she was going to specifically make movies that hadno representationof LGBTQIA,” she explained toNick Viall, 42, on hisViall Filespodcast.
“It’s fine if you are doing it because it’s just your movie’s storyline and it’s just it is what it is, like, not everything needs to be gay essentially," Siwa added. “But when you’re doing it out of spite to say that, ‘Too much is about LGBTQIA and you guys suck and I want to make a movie about traditional marriage andyou’re not traditional,’ that got to me a little bit.”
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“I am a devoted Christian. Which means that I believe that every human being bears the image of God,” she wrote at the time. “Because of that, I am called to love all people, and I do. If you know me, you know that I am a person who loves fiercely and indiscriminately. My heart yearns tobuild bridgesand bring people one step closer to God, to love others well, and to simply be a reflection of God’s huge love for all of us.”
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“After reading [the article], it gave me a little sense of, ‘OK, you and her are never going to agree, you and her are never going to be friends [or] get along,” theDance Momsalum said to Viall. “I’m never going to be able to change her, she’s not gonna be able to change me, we can both just live life.”
Siwa noted, “But I wish she was able to be a little more open,a little more accepting. I’m OK with calling her out in the way that I did.”
source: people.com
